Max Riemelt
Max Riemelt (born in East Berlin, East Germany on 7 January 1984) is a German actor. Internationally, he is best known for playing Wolfgang Bogdanow in the television series Sense8. He is also well-known for acting in movies such as Before the Fall (2004), The Wave (2008) and Free Fall (2013). At the 2004 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, he won the best actor award for ‘Napola’ and in the 2006 Bavarian Film Awards, he won the best young actor award for ‘Der Rote Kakadu’. Riemelt's career began in Germany at the age of 13, in the TV productions Eine Familie zum Küssen and Praxis Bülowbogen. The following year Riemelt played his first leading role in the ZDF Christmas series Zwei allein (director: Matthias Steurer): the Waisenkind "Max Loser". In the video for the title song "Two of a Kind" by the Hamburg duo "R & B", Riemelt has a cameo appearance. He has starred in all of Dennis Gansel's feature films, starting with Mädchen, Mädchen. In 2013, he starred in the movie Free Fall with Hanno Koffler, in which he plays Kay Engel, a police officer in training. The movie depicts a gay love story and has been compared to Brokeback Mountain. From 2015 to 2018, he starred in The Wachowskis' Netflix series Sense8, playing Wolfgang Bogdanow, a German safe cracker. The first season received positive reviews from critics. In 2020, he joined the cast of The Matrix 4.
Run for Your Life!
(Andreas Niedrig)
Snipers Valley
(Charly)
Girls on Top 2
(Flin)
Precious Ivie
(Paul)
The Red Cockatoo
(Siggi)
The Wave
(Marco)
Der Untergang der Pamir
(Carl-Friedrich von Krempin)
Up! Up! To the sky
(Arnold)
An die Grenze
(Gefreiter Kerner)
Girls on Top
(Flin)
Before the Fall
(Friedrich Weimer)
13 Semester
('Momo')
We Are the Night
(Tom Serner)
Urban Explorer
(Dante / Kris)
The Fourth State
(Dima)
Hallesche Kometen
(Ingo)
Playoff
(Thomas)
Forgotten
(Marcus)
The German Friend
(Friedrich Burg)
Partly Sunny
(Tim)
Auslandseinsatz
(Daniel Gerber)
Free Fall
(Kay Engel)
A Family of Three
(Lars Dewenter)
Bear on the Run
(Tom)
Talking About the Weather
(Marcel)
Thousand Oceans
(Meikel)
Der zweite Mann
(Adrian Davids)
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
(Bernd Rosemeyer)
Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen
(Lukas)
Two to One
(Robert)
Lottoschein ins Glück
(Björn Michels)
Mein Vater und andere Betrüger
(Robertino)
Ernesto’s Island
(Matthias)
Blutgeld
(Ralf Seifert)
Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg
(Thomas Hafner)
Sanctuary
(Bruder Krapp)
Amnesia
(Jo)
Storno: Todsicher versichert
(Rupert)
Warsaw 44
(Johann Krauss)
Ein Taxi zur Bescherung
(Jan Olsmer)
To Life!
(Jonas)
Sense8: Creating the World
(Wolfgang Bogdanovic)
Berlin Syndrome
(Andi Werner)
Brennendes Schweigen
(Schappi)
Icons of Light
(Steffen)
Eine Familie zum Küssen
Etwas ganz Besonderes
(Matze)
Golem
Free Fall 2
(Kay Engel)
The Angel Makers
GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln
(Edgar (Polizist), Art. 2)
Nachtasyl
(Aljoscha)
My Mother's Girlfriend
(Jan)
Head Burst
(Markus)
Der Schneegänger
(Lutz Gehring)
The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea
(Oliver)
The Matrix Resurrections
(Sheperd)
Sense8: A Christmas Special
(Wolfgang Bogdanow)
Wolffs Revier
(Harald Bernhard)
Der Kriminalist
(Michael Büssig)
In the Face of Crime
(Marek Gorsky)
Der Staatsanwalt
(Markus Pohl)
Sense8
(Wolfgang Bogdanow)
Der letzte Bulle
(Dennis Paschmann)
Sleeping Dog
(Mike Atlas)
Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP
(Timo)
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
(Marcel Freese)
Balko
(Ingo Grabowski)
In aller Freundschaft
(Mirco Venske)
German Television Award
(Self)
Grimme-Preis-Verleihung
(Self)
Bayerischer Filmpreis
(Self)
Zwei allein
(Max)
Bonn
(Wolfgang Berns)
Kölner Treff
(Self)
Scene of the Crime
(Louis Bürger)
DAS!
(Self)
World on Fire
(Schmidt)
ZIBB
(Self)
Morgenmagazin
(Self)